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Birthdays

Jeremiah W. Asher

1812-10-13 - 1865-07-27

Lafayette Curry Baker

1826-10-13 - 1868-07-03

Henry Haywood Bell

1808-10-13 - 1868-01-11

George William Brown

1812-10-13 - 1890-09-05

James Cook Conkling

1816-10-13 - 1899-03-01

George Purnell Fisher

1817-10-13 - 1899-02-10

Edwin Lycurgus Griffith

1838-10-13 - 1918-01-01

William Lyon

1819-10-13 - 1862-01-01

John Rock

1825-10-13 - 1866-12-03

Benjamin Wood

1820-10-13 - 1900-02-21

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Events

Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867
Personal	David Wilmot serves in the United States Senate	03/14/1861 to 03/03/1863

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Documents

Newspaper	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Rebel Raid on Chambersburg,” October 13, 1862	10/13/1862
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to George Brinton McClellan, October 13, 1862	10/13/1862